{"id":11821,"date":"2013-01-31T14:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11821"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:53:50","slug":"telephone-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11821","title":{"rendered":"Telephone Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/phonepad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11822\" title=\"phonepad\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/phonepad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Police in Fargo are warning residents about a telephone scam with someone posing as a local utility company representative.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A resident told officers that he was contacted by someone claiming to be a collection agent with a local utility company demanding money for payment on a current account.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police say the caller told the resident to buy a pre-paid money card and turn over the card&#8217;s number so the money could be transferred from the card. The person complied with the demands and lost about $500.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Police say they&#8217;ve seen similar frauds in the past and they&#8217;re reminding residents to be cautious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Police in Fargo are warning residents about a telephone scam with someone posing as a local utility company representative. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A resident told officers that he was contacted by someone claiming to be a collection agent with a local utility company demanding money for payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11823,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions\/11823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}